Add reversible collars, and use backgrounds for calendar dates. Post 616

 

This lovely contrast of black enlivened by a green jacket was worn by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Sussex,  near beautiful Brighton in West Sussex on the coast south of London. England. I am specifying London,  England because when I lived in the zUSA PR people from zUS cities later wrote to me using London in the address and my post was delivered to the nearer London in Canada.

Back to the point about the green and black and contrasting collars. I was thinking that if you or I wanted to buy or make a jacket or blouse with a contrasting collar, one could save sewing time with a detachable collar. Velcro might scratch your neck or delicate fabrics underneath, so an alternative fastening would be small snaps (the shortet American word) which in the UK are called and sold as press studs.

You could also make a detachable collar. Or add a neatly pre-tied and sewn together cravat. Sew press studs underneath on one side for getting into the garment.

For a change of outfits on a weekend away, a blouse or jacket could have two colours of collar. With a second blouse with the changeable collar, you have four outfits. All black, all green, black with a green collar, green with a black collar.

That gives you four outfits, for the benefit of others, or to identify photos. All black was Friday. All green was Saturday. Black with the green collar was Sunday. Green with the black collar was Monday..

You. could alternatively wear each different outfit on successive weekends or successive summer or winter holidays.

You can use a combination of clothes and backgrounds to date a photo later. The above photo was taken at the Alumni meeting, 2025, Friday September 19th, indoors without windows so no clues as to time of day, but from recent memory and the saved event programme I know it was  before lunch.

I was able to label photos of my late parents with the location, because my father identified a prominent building such as a castle, confirmed by another photo of her outside a hotel which had its name prominently.  Another dozen photos of my mother wearing the same yellow suit with different blouses were from the same holiday, giving us the date and location, and as I knew my mother's birthday I could work out her age using the time of year, before or after her birthday, using the background foliage,  background foliage, and signs about events.